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  1. Re:But but.... on CERN Releases Analysis of LHC Incident · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or consider when you buy the amount of cable they did, that 0.00001% chance of defect creeps in.

  2. Re:hallelujah on Single Neuron Wired To Muscle Un-Paralyzes Monkeys · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm... that would also mean there needs to be two way communication, not just from the motor cortex to the muscle but nerves and paths back for the feedback. I am going to guess that the former is much easier than the latter.

  3. Re:Dear God, free us from religion... on Single Neuron Wired To Muscle Un-Paralyzes Monkeys · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is irony:

    God, please protect me from your followers.

  4. Re:Where will them oney come from? on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 1

    Not even toppins for birds?!?!

  5. Re:It's a slippery slope... on Every Email In UK To Be Monitored · · Score: 1

    I would point out that I can save them some money by letting them store the to/from and I will store the actual message.

    I would love to know how this got so turned around that calling these types of laws "Orwellian" labels YOU the unpatriotic conspiracy theorist. I would like to see the first Congress of the US spend a day with the current one. The UK has already gone too far. Try hiding from a camera while taking a leak on the way back from the pub...

  6. Re:THIS IS A SLASHDOT NEWS FLASH! on Arctic Sea Ice Rallies a Bit · · Score: 1

    you should google "ice core" sometime. you can even see the ppm of various gases over history on various websites. it's all there. look for yourself if you don't trust media/news/science research of unknown funding.

  7. Re:But i thought... on Yahoo Hacker 'Mafiaboy' Eight Years On · · Score: 1

    If they say Rrrrr they are a pirate, else they are Canadian.

  8. Re:Real AI is still a long way out.. on Loebner Talks AI · · Score: 1

    A goal of AI is intelligence and knowledge and increasing both. Every time an AI comes across a term it doesn't know and tries to associate it with something, it's implicitly wanting to "understand" something. Obviously that behaviour has to be programmed in, but it is a type of wanting. I don't know thrillbert... run a query and process thrillbert. Then it comes across your post, and realizes an AI weakness is that it doesn't want something, and that creates a ton more associations the system wants to figure out/solve to understand "want".

  9. Re:"Oh yay" on Sony, Microsoft Begin Battle of Virtual Worlds · · Score: 1

    "There was no such thing as a "screen dump" back then."

    Screen dump or screen capture? We definitely had screen dumps, it might have been spit out on a dot matrix and print speeds were measured in characters per second, but you could get hardcopies. On a IIe it was PR#1 (with your printer interface card in slot one) or thereabouts. My emulator is useless on this one. As far as screen caps, you could just tell the system to write 8k bytes to disk starting at the memory location of screen memory. Ha, as you loaded it back from disk you could see the image paint on screen. You could also load binaries to screen memory, just to see what they "looked" like.

    If we would have had the internet with computers like that we would have a whole different environment today.

  10. Re:Obvious question on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    And the explanation is encoded in the answer...

  11. Re:Artificial Intelligence? on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 1

    Whatever that algorithm is, I don't think we have discovered the right math to either solve it or express it. Or at least using our math would be so difficult that no one human would be able to fit the whole thing in his head. We count 1, 2, 3, but then there are these other numbers we have discovered like pi and e that seem really awkward represented in our math system. We cannot create a function for the shape of a cloud, or model global weather.

    So a researcher looks at his own brain. He has mapped out most of it. Would he ever be able to map out the part of his brain that is working on the problem of mapping out his brain? Pretty soon all the neurons that have reformed and the synapses are starting to represent themselves, since they are remembering their own structure.
    Likewise, what happens when a researcher is looking at data coming from his own optic nerve?

  12. Re:Man are you on facebook? on Give Up the Fight For Personal Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Doesn't matter. Odds are if someone makes themselves look like an ass daily in real life, an online representation of them will be pretty close. I personally love the under age kids whose profiles are all about drinking.

    And personally, I think the only thing that might be ultimately harming the OP's social life is that he still engages in arguments over what email service to use. I want to see this guy go without internet for a week.

  13. Re:Arithmetic on $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    Don't forget $25 billion for the US auto industry.

    Terminator of California will also be asking for a $7 billion loan.

    I see why we need to keep the credit system going. Our entire government is broke and can only function with borrowing money.

  14. Re:Arithmetic on $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    The FDIC will never run out of money, silly. You won't actually get money in the mail from the FDIC, or a check (where are you going to cash it?) instead, you will get a bunch of mortgage certificates which will serve as our new currency.

  15. Re:Dec 2009 limit on the raised FDIC insurance lim on $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law · · Score: 1

    Oh yes. Your insurance!

    So banks start failing. Your bank fails one Friday.

    What do you do, fill out a FDIC Insurance Claim form?

    Do you send it in and then they send you a check?

    Does anyone know how exactly this works??

    It won't matter. The economy will be in total disarray, and the president will claim in this mess he is temporarily suspending presidential term limits. The economy will continue to falter, and the next big pill we have to swallow with a gun to our heads is we have to form a union with Canada and Mexico and form a new currency, the Amero. Brilliant. It's not every lifetime you see something actually attempting world domination.

    p.s. some people have some really good points through all this, but realize as soon as I see sloppy spelling or grammar I am going to assume your research and ideas are equally as sloppy. You developed an expert opinion on political macroeconomic ideals but never learned to spell? Not!

  16. Re:Not much information on New Denial-of-Service Attack Is a Killer · · Score: 1

    I'll take a stab. See the wiki entry on SYN Cookies for more background.

    They may have figured out a way to blast a system with TCP ACK packets that create open connections in the target system. In otherwords, an ACK comes in and the target thinks it is from a previously attempted SYN packet, so it creates an open connection having received only one packet. Send enough of these and you exhaust several resources on the host system, including source port numbers, max open connections, buffers for data coming in that will never come, etc.

    I don't have much confidence in my theory though as they indicate it is fundamental and SYN cookies are not fundamental to TCP, they are an option.

    Here is a bit of a diagram:
    Normal:

    Attacker Target
    Syn------>
                              Makes Entry in SYN table
                  <---Syn/ACK with SYN cookie
                              Deletes entry in SYN table
    ACK ---- >
    (with proper syn cookie)
                              Compare SYN Cookie
                              Recreate SYN entry
                              Open connection
    HTTP GET blah ------->

    These guys may be able to predict the SYN cookie on successive connection OPENs for a given source IP/source Port/destination port and just do:

    Attacker Target
    ACK ------>
      (spoofed SYN Cookie)
                                    Compare SYN Cookie
                                    Recreate SYN entry
                                    Open connection
    ACK ------>
      (spoofed SYN Cookie) ... Open connection
    ACK -------> ... Open connection
    ACK -------> ... Open connection
    ACK -------> ... Open connection
    ACK -------> ... Open connection
                                    choke.

    To start things off, you can send one SYN packet to the host to get its current "SYN Cookie seed" if you will, then you could blast it with ACKs with forged SYN cookies. If they can predict these for their IP, they could certainly predict it for a spoofed IP.

    This can't be it though, because it seems easy to fix. I am not saying I have a solution but SYN cookies are only there to prevent SYN floods, TCP will function without it though you are now vulnerable to SYN floods again. The algorithm for generating the SYN cookie could be changed to thwart this type of attack also.

    Either that or I just released a new exploit.

  17. Re:Because those third-world islands can afford it on Tsunami Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    > could go sideways, slide down, or lay down

    A Wonkabridge!

  18. Re:Because those third-world islands can afford it on Tsunami Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    They anchor out front, where they are vulnerable to the tsunami of course.

    If you were going to go through all this effort, wouldn't it just be easier to use all that building material to just put all the buildings on stilts?

  19. A detailed look at clouds on Sending Excess Load To the Cloud? · · Score: 1

    A cloud is usually the first sign I have excess load.

    Oh wait, this isn't the methane gas thread!

  20. Re:Interesting but how useful, really? on Reducing Boot Time On a General Linux Distro · · Score: 1

    It happens to be incredibly useful when you are writing an article about boot times. You know how many times they had to boot? It was originally an article about changing the login window graphic.

    Seriously, when you start hacking up your kernel to get a silly winmodem to work you appreciate any work someone has already done for you to get your system to boot faster. Or at least I would have...

  21. Re:well on Apple Censors App Store Rejection Notices · · Score: 1

    I signed up for an Apple Dev Account. While waiting for the email to come, I started searching for some good iPhone programming sites. I instantly came across the NDA thing. I had thought they would have done away with that around the 2.0 release. I eventually got my email from Apple. I clicked the link and it didn't work. For some reason my dev account could not be activated. I clicked the support link and promptly informed them of my problem, but told them no action was necessary as I would not voluntarily support their platform until the NDA was lifted.

    This company once gave me a computer with call -151. I learned to program on that, a Vic 20 and a PET by typing in programs from magazines and reading books. The whole damn industry came about because of a bunch of guys who shared a drawer full of punch tapes. I don't see how this NDA is helping Apple at this point.

  22. Re:It's too bad that you need a $2300 mac to make on Adobe Adds GPU Acceleration To Creative Suite 4 · · Score: 1

    You have obviously never heard of an external monitor port.

  23. Re:More than a suggestion on Mars Rover's Epic Trek For the Crater Endeavor · · Score: 3, Funny

    This actually is some pretty challenging stuff.

    You make it sound like it's rocket science or something on that level. Sheesh.

  24. Re:11 km on Mars Rover's Epic Trek For the Crater Endeavor · · Score: 1

    That bucket of bolts is never gonna get past that crater rim.

  25. Re:Just what we need, more toxins in environment on Nanotech Paint To Kill Bacteria · · Score: 1

    This line of thinking has not stopped the port of San Diego from considering telling boat owners to stop using copper based paint. Why? Because there is a high level of copper in the water. Without checking for any other source of copper, they just assumed it was the boats and big stink ensues. And I would be willing to bet a can of bottom paint that there are far worse things in the water than copper.